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Best Free WYSIWYG Editor & Cleaning Up A Website

By Tim Gross - Internet Business Blog |

A reader writes:

I am working on helping small communities with different things. My  help  question: Will you tell/show me how to  clean up  this site and with what program - I do have FPXpress?
http://www.townofluseland.com/
I believe the site may have been created in Netscape but, visitors are told  best viewed in IE.

The best free WYSIWYG (”What You See Is What You Get”) editor I’m aware of currently is www.NVU.com, especially since you said the site you wanted to wor on was created in Netscape, because NVU is based on the Mozilla Public License (meaning it’ll be very compatible to re-work a website that was created in Mozilla’s Netscape.

As far as “cleaning up” that site, the first thing to do is to make the background white instead of the current background image (makes it hard to read, cluttered). In a larger sense, it’s hard to tell what you’re getting into until you can get a copy of the website downloaded to see how many pages there are, etc.

Tip: When I want to quickly find out how an individual web page is put together, I just click File=Save Page As =>Web Page Complete to save that page and graphics to my harddrive, then open up in your editor (I usually use Dreamweaver) to get a better idea of how it’s built.

Making individual changes to dozens (or hundreds) of pages gets monotonous very quickly, so looking at background images, logos, or other shared graphics that are used in multiple pages is a “quick fix” to making the site look better, and you don’t have to change individual HTML pages to do it, just created a better .gif or .jpg image and upload to replace the current one.

Again, it’s hard to tell what you’re getting into when you’re reworking websites until you can download it and see how big it is. I hope those suggestions help, and best of luck to you! :-) -Tim

P.S. - Pretty good help files for NVU here

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